随着科学技术的飞速发展,空气悬架系统经历了钢板弹簧——气囊复合式悬架、被动空气悬架、电控空气悬架等多种形式的变化。电控空气悬架系统（Electroni-cally Controlled Air Suspension System）,英文缩写是ECASS。1.电控空气悬架系...随着科学技术的飞速发展,空气悬架系统经历了钢板弹簧——气囊复合式悬架、被动空气悬架、电控空气悬架等多种形式的变化。电控空气悬架系统（Electroni-cally Controlled Air Suspension System）,英文缩写是ECASS。1.电控空气悬架系统的组成电控空气悬架系统主要由高度传感器、ECU、电磁阀、压力开关、贮气筒及气囊等组成。展开更多
A novel method of matching stiffness and continuous variable damping of an ECAS(electronically controlled air suspension) based on LQG(linear quadratic Gaussian) control was proposed to simultaneously improve the road...A novel method of matching stiffness and continuous variable damping of an ECAS(electronically controlled air suspension) based on LQG(linear quadratic Gaussian) control was proposed to simultaneously improve the road-friendliness and ride comfort of a two-axle school bus.Taking account of the suspension nonlinearities and target-height-dependent variation in suspension characteristics,a stiffness model of the ECAS mounted on the drive axle of the bus was developed based on thermodynamics and the key parameters were obtained through field tests.By determining the proper range of the target height for the ECAS of the fully-loaded bus based on the design requirements of vehicle body bounce frequency,the control algorithm of the target suspension height(i.e.,stiffness) was derived according to driving speed and road roughness.Taking account of the nonlinearities of a continuous variable semi-active damper,the damping force was obtained through the subtraction of the air spring force from the optimum integrated suspension force,which was calculated based on LQG control.Finally,a GA(genetic algorithm)-based matching method between stepped variable damping and stiffness was employed as a benchmark to evaluate the effectiveness of the LQG-based matching method.Simulation results indicate that compared with the GA-based matching method,both dynamic tire force and vehicle body vertical acceleration responses are markedly reduced around the vehicle body bounce frequency employing the LQG-based matching method,with peak values of the dynamic tire force PSD(power spectral density) decreased by 73.6%,60.8% and 71.9% in the three cases,and corresponding reduction are 71.3%,59.4% and 68.2% for the vehicle body vertical acceleration.A strong robustness to variation of driving speed and road roughness is also observed for the LQG-based matching method.展开更多
文摘随着科学技术的飞速发展,空气悬架系统经历了钢板弹簧——气囊复合式悬架、被动空气悬架、电控空气悬架等多种形式的变化。电控空气悬架系统（Electroni-cally Controlled Air Suspension System）,英文缩写是ECASS。1.电控空气悬架系统的组成电控空气悬架系统主要由高度传感器、ECU、电磁阀、压力开关、贮气筒及气囊等组成。
基金Projects(51305117,51178158)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(20130111120031)supported by the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education+1 种基金Project(2013M530230)supported by the China Postdoctoral Science FoundationProjects(2012HGQC0015,2011HGBZ0945)supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China
文摘A novel method of matching stiffness and continuous variable damping of an ECAS(electronically controlled air suspension) based on LQG(linear quadratic Gaussian) control was proposed to simultaneously improve the road-friendliness and ride comfort of a two-axle school bus.Taking account of the suspension nonlinearities and target-height-dependent variation in suspension characteristics,a stiffness model of the ECAS mounted on the drive axle of the bus was developed based on thermodynamics and the key parameters were obtained through field tests.By determining the proper range of the target height for the ECAS of the fully-loaded bus based on the design requirements of vehicle body bounce frequency,the control algorithm of the target suspension height(i.e.,stiffness) was derived according to driving speed and road roughness.Taking account of the nonlinearities of a continuous variable semi-active damper,the damping force was obtained through the subtraction of the air spring force from the optimum integrated suspension force,which was calculated based on LQG control.Finally,a GA(genetic algorithm)-based matching method between stepped variable damping and stiffness was employed as a benchmark to evaluate the effectiveness of the LQG-based matching method.Simulation results indicate that compared with the GA-based matching method,both dynamic tire force and vehicle body vertical acceleration responses are markedly reduced around the vehicle body bounce frequency employing the LQG-based matching method,with peak values of the dynamic tire force PSD(power spectral density) decreased by 73.6%,60.8% and 71.9% in the three cases,and corresponding reduction are 71.3%,59.4% and 68.2% for the vehicle body vertical acceleration.A strong robustness to variation of driving speed and road roughness is also observed for the LQG-based matching method.
